[Tigers] British Rubber

[Tigerman]

I'm not sure how effective it would be in restoring parts that are already 
hardened, but on my motorcycle, there are a couple of rubber grommets that 
hold on the side covers, and in order to keep them in decent shape, I use a 
silicone based grease.  It makes popping those side covers on/off alot 
easier. The silicone is suppose to not negatively effect rubber and plastic. 
I think I got the idea from my scuba diving gear which uses a food grade 
silicone spray and grease.  Since I didn't believe I needed food grade, and 
the amount of grease sold at a scuba diving store is very small, I looked 
for it in autoparts stores.  I though I remember having troubling finding a 
pure silicone grease that didn't have anything else in it, but I did find 
some tubes of it at Napa, but don't remember the exact product name, other 
than I think it was a Napa branded product.

Steve





> Does anyone out there have a magic method of softening and preserving 
> forty
> year-old English rubber, namely grommets and plugs?  Some of mine is 
> intact,
> not cracked, but has gotten very hard.
>
> Charlie